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A bold and beautiful globe perfectly tiled with triangles, squares, and pentagons.

Style: This polyhedral design is part of the Archimedean Wireframe series, with a geometric, precise aesthetic that easily distinguishes different types of faces. Each of the thirteen polyhedra in the series are scaled so that they have similar edge-to-surface area ratios, so they look great in groups or as a full set.

Looking for a birthday or anniverary gift? A Rhombicosidodecahedron makes a nice keepsake gift to mark occasions that involve the following numerical milestones:

3 = number of types of faces

3, 4, 5 = number of sides on each face (triangles, squares, and pentagons)

Mathematics: The Rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the thirteen Archimedean solids. It has 62 faces of three different types: 3-sided, 4-sided, and 5-sided, and all 60 of its vertices have the same degree-four configuration. Its dual polyhedron, the Deltoidal Hexecontahedron, turns things inside-out with 62 vertices of three different types (degree 3, 4, and 5), and 60 identical four-sided faces.

Design: This model was created by mathgrrl using Mathematica, Meshmixer, MeshLab, and TopMod.

Photo Discount: Earn $5 of Shapeways credit from me by ordering and photographing this design in a new material! If you're the first to send me a well-staged, good quality photo of this design in a material for which this listing does not yet have a real-world photograph, then I'll send you $5 credit that you can spend anywhere on Shapeways.